Love me some '76 Dead. Show kicks off with a mellow and groovy Sugaree. After that, it's a fairly standard first set, with a sweet Loser that stands out and an excellent 13-minute stand-alone Scarlet Begonias that's featured on the 30 trips definitive live story. Second set, from Playing on, is really sweet and lots of fun. Its jammy and full of surprises.

Unfortunately, this AUD recording is not great. I'm frankly not as keen on it as some of the other reviewers are so it has me jumping around to other audio streams. After the first set I hop over to the Jim Bennett transfer (shnf 1289) for the set two opening Samson and Delilah. It's followed by a sweet Roses. Then, I'm off to the FMSBD (shnf 248). It's by far the best recording in the archive, but the track listing is all out of whack. At any rate, it features the meat of the second set, from The Wheel through to Dancin', the definite show highlights.

For the most part, the first set is standard fare except for the exceptional Scarlet. But the 2nd set jamming is simply stellar from Playing through Dancing. The recording is just fine and clears up after the first two songs. I love good audience tapes, and while I've heard better, this is a thoroughly enjoyable listen (and much more vibrant than the SBD). Well worth the download!

This is a great audience recording, especially when you get into the second set and things get juicier, for the most part people stop making noise and listen but the audience presence is still felt through the recording which makes for a nice listen, 4.5 stars

This is a actually a nicely recorded audience, a little muddy especially at first - you got to stick with it past the first song. The room sound is captured nicely with all the instruments represented well. Crowd noise is generally pretty low, which is important. A lot better than a lot of auds, I would recommend it.

This is one of the best AUDs I have ever heard. There is soemthing powerful, dark and volcanic underlying the surface of the sound .....it keeps you on the edge of your seat making you think the whole thing could just blow at any second. Check out Scarlet if you want to hear what I'm talking about. As compared to the sound board segments of this show that are available I would choose this version in a heartbeat. You can really hear the hall in this recording as it must have sounded like to the people there and the reverberations talking place within the atmosphere of the hall as the sounds are being produced.

Some people love this show. There are certainly great moments, and on the whole it's a very, very good show. The sound quality starts off rough, but either it gets better or I get used to it by the second set, which is the really fun part anyway. The ending jam is just CRAZY, there's no denying it...but maybe crazy is actually the wrong word. Random would be maybe more apt. It sounds like they can't decide what to play and don't much care, to my ears. It's a little TOO relaxed.

I don't know. I WANT to give this show a higher rating. The playing is awesome...but there's something kind of FLAT about its awesomeness, despite the intricate second set list. I recall Garcia, in an interview, saying something about when the music gets TOO perfect: so perfect that it's actually boring. I think that's what's affecting me here: there's a certain tension missing--the tension, as Garcia said, between TRYING to do something and actually doing it. I think my favorite shows are the ones where I really don't know if they're going to hit that magic high, and then BAM, they hit it. In this show I get no feeling of suspension: it's all sugar and no lemon, and I like a good dose of sour with my sweet.

Take my rating with a grain of salt: even I have to spend too much time explaining it, and I don't really understand it myself. I think this show is like a heavy dose of acid: so much of the enjoyability depends on your set and setting. Maybe I'm just not in the right mood today. Great show, but...hmmm. I don't know.

I pay anywhere from 7.99 to 15.99 for a spindle of 100 blank cds, nowhere near a buck apiece. I never buy off brand crap either, Sony, Memorex, Phillips, etc. You must not even be trying.

I started going to Dead shows in 1971 so i am not a 77 newbie. IMHO, if you think most 77 shows are over rated, I think you need to stop hittin' the hippie crack!

Stay away from the balllllooooooons! :D

Peace.

I give this one a five. I don't care about sound quality. Any show that opens with a jammin' Sugaree, and gives you a Wheel AND a Comes a Time in the second set is tops with me!

Peace!

Seriously
If it was thirty years ago maybe it would be ten cents but hen only some computer dudes would even know what it is and it would be classified..
76 shows are all hot in my opinion, and 77s are usually overrated.
Why?
Because a lot of newbies started going to shows in 77
Worth the downlowd even at a dollar something :)

Okay, it's an audience tape and not the greatest aud at that, but very cool show . . . check out the unique riff about 11 minutes into Scarlet, for just one example. I think we need to count our blessings that we have the opportunity to check out shows from 30 and more years ago. Well worth burning (what's a blank cd cost . . . ten cents?!) I'll listen to this one more than once. Let the music play!

to the dude who found the show that he recorded, I must say that it is truly amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can not belive it dude. Hilarity abounds mi lad....its crapy recording,though and I do not recommend this show for download becuiase of that but do not take it personally my friend. Rigth on! 1 for recording and 5 for set list. Basically AN INAUDIBLE SHOW.

Along with the previuos mentioned tunes,the spontaneous Jam> Good Lovin'>Jam is atreat for 76'.

i must say...audience shows...?????..but the sound is decnt here..and the show is HOT!!!!!!!!!!!comes a time-dancin(amazing)-not fade away-dancin...and the jam right before..it absolutely rocks...76..i remember them well...5 for the show 3 for the sound=4

This is too weird. This is my recording!!
I recorded this show on a Sony 153TDC. One of only three shows that I ever recorded. I can hear myself talking at a couple points if the show and we didn't get the tape recorder running until Sugaree had started and when it cut it, the volume was too loud......whatever.
It's one of my favorite shows of all time, myabe my favorite I ever attended. I came to the site tonight just to see if I could find a better version and what a trip to find out that it's my show being offered.
Wow, it's my show!
4 star for recording, 5 star performance. I don;t have the originals any more but have the 2ns generation.

The sound quality of this is a 3 and the show is a 5+.. the scarlet music is unbelievable whole set II is long and great... You may not agree this deserves a 4 but I just kep shaking my head and pounding the table at some of the riffs Jerry and Phil were blowing at this show....